Today was a great day. I hit my quota again (second day in a row after a long drought), and I also got another programming project off the ground. I am still trying to get my dictation macro updated. Programmers keep bailing on me. It’s not the easiest job in the world.
For reading, I continued reading the Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson. Great book.
For marketing, no work in that area today. For data analysis, I continued crunching some numbers on ChatGPT-3 and its ability to help me generate cleaner manuscripts before going to my editor. I continue to be encouraged by my early tests. I've estimated that ChatGPT-3 can help me reduce the number of errors in my manuscripts by at least 50 percent. And I am being conservative.
It really helps that I started thinking about this technology three years ago. I spent a lot of time learning and experimenting when it was inconvenient to do so. I am just now seeing the fruits of those experiments. And the results are unbelievable.
For production, I finished another short story, and it is now in the queue for my editor.
In other news, I noticed that the first round of AI art lawsuits has been filed. You can the lawsuit as well as a criticism of it at this website: http://www.stablediffusionfrivolous.com/ . You’ll see the original lawsuit on the left and the criticism on the right.
The original lawsuit website is https://www.stablediffusionlitigation.com.
I have no idea how any of this is going to shake out but I’d like to see some of the issues around AI art settled one way or the other so we can all move on. I hope artists secure some strong wins because that will help authors down the road. But I don't think there are any easy answers here, unfortunately. AI art is an emotional subject that rightfully has many people upset over its uses, but I don't think it's going anywhere.
It would be nice if courts established some guardrails so that we have guidance on what we should and shouldn't do with the technology. Anyway, I'll let you all chew on this lawsuit. There's a lot to read, and it's essential reading for anyone who has strong opinions about AI art.
